The works of Thomas Gray with memoirs of his life and writings by William Mason to which are subjoined extracts philological poetical and critical from the author s original manuscripts selected and arranged by Thomas James Mathias

Gray, Thomas

Published by printed by William Bulmer and Co. Shakespeare Press, for John Porter in Pall Mall Bookseller to her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte, London, 1814

About this Item

First edition, 2 volumes, 4to, pp. [6], 581, [1]; [4], vii, [1], 634; fine engraved frontispiece portrait by R. Pollard after B. Wilson, 4 pages of Gray's handwriting in facsimile from Elegy in a Country Church Yard 1750, 2 other engraved plates and a half-page engraved tailpiece at the end of the first volume; contemporary drab paper-covered boards, green cloth shelfback, printed paper labels on spines; edges rubbed, some soiling and spotting, but generally a very good, sound, and clean copy. While this appears to be the original binding, it was likely bound after the 1814 publication date, possibly from remaindered sheets. An 1812 watermark is in the text block, not the end leaves.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The works of Thomas Gray with memoirs of his life and writings by William Mason to which are subjoined extracts philological poetical and critical from the author s original manuscripts selected and arranged by Thomas James Mathias
• Publisher: printed by William Bulmer and Co. Shakespeare Press, for John Porter in Pall Mall Bookseller to her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte, London
• Publication Date: 1814
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Seller catalogs:
  • English Literature
  • Poetry